Clasp foe wearing apparel



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A. WINTERBURN.

CLASP FOR WEARING APPAREL.

Pate nted Apr. 14, 1885...

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ANDREW \VINTEBBURN, OF ALBANY, NEXV YORK.

GLASP FOR WEARING-APPAREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,873, dated April 1%, 1885.

Application filed November 5, 1884. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom; it may concern:

Be it known thatl, ANDREW Wrnrnnnunn, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Albany, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in earing-Apparel Clasps, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to wearingapparel clasps for supporting hose, drawers, shirts, and other articles of wear and it consists in the combination of devices and elements here inafter particularly described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

The objects of my invention are, first, to provide a supporting-strap with two elastic branches, one of which is provided with a stud and the other with a hook, which will be adapted to engage with the stud below its head and on its side toward the terminal end of the stud branch of the strap, so that the fabric held between the stud and hook will be made to draw equally on both branches of the supporting-strap and yield equally under the strain, and thereby prevent the fabric from being drawn out from between the stud and hook and, also, to provide a specific means for the attachment to the supportingstrap, or a branch thereof, of a base-p1ate and a stud or button to be employed with a coacting hook, as will be hereinafter more particularly de scribed. I attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents a plan view of the branches of a supporting-strap,with the hook and stud shown disconnect-ed. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, showing the hook and stud connected without fabric between. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the lower side branch with its button applied to the fabric and hook disconnected. Fig. at is a plan view of the hook and button in engagement with the fabric. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation of the same connect ed and in engagement with the fabric to be supported. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of suitable material, and having branches a. a. These branch straps a a are made of elastic niaterialsuch as rubber webbi ngand are secured in any proper manner with strap A.

B is a stud made of any suitable material, and having its head I) rounded. This stud is employed with a base-plate, 0, having slot 0 and bar 0', made with its outer end as shown in Fig. 6, and with perforations c, situated rearward of slotc, and made with a size and form corresponding with the contracted riveting end portion, b, of stud B.

D is a washer having a central perforation, d, also corresponding in size and form with riveting end portion, 1), of the stud. An end portion of branch strap a is passed through slot 0 from its upperside and passed to beneath plate 0. This branch strap is then turned down oyer bar 0, and thence back and riveted to branch a at fork a1, preferably by stitching. The riveting end portion of stud B is then passed through hole 0 and through the two thicknesses of branch strap a,when washer D is applied and secured by riveting the end I) of the stud down to clinch on washer D.

E is a hook connected by an eye or equivalentmeans to branch strap a. The opening of this hook at its bow c is made on a curve which is a little greater than that of its head b, and the length of said bow of opening of this hook to the fork x of the branch straps is about equal to the length between fork x and the outer side of the-neck of stud B, so that the hook will be adapted to close on the neck of said stud and beneath its head, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

In the use of this device the fabric F of the article to be supported is to be simply placed over stud B, as illustrated in Fig. 4, when hook E is to be passed over the fabric and against the off side of the stud, as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 5, when the fabric will be engaged with the coacting stud and l1ook,which will securely hold the fabricfroni pulling away. hen the pullof the fabric is brought on this clamping stud and hook, the strain will be first on the hook and next in direction over the head of the stud, so that there will be a double bite on the fabric by reason of the coaction of the hook with both the head and neck of the stud.v The elasticity of branches or a of the supporting-strap operates to permit the pull of the article supported to be resisted equally by both the stud and hook.

I am aware that clasps employing a stud on one side of a strap are old. I therefore do not claim the same as being my invention.

I am also aware that studs secured to a strap, and a sliding bifurcated piece adapted to be moved to under the head of the stud to engage with the fabric between said head and the bifurcated piece are also old. Such devices I do not claim as my invention.

I am also aware that a stud riveted to abaseplate which is attached to a strap by means of slots made in both ends of the base-plate has been used; but such a base carrying the stud differs from my base 0, stud B, and washer D as a means for connecting the branch strap to the stud, and therefore forms no part of my invention.

I am also aware that a stud secured to an end of a strap, and a metallic loop secured to the same strap at a point rearward from the stud, have been used for holding with the fabric of articles of wear by engaging the fabric between the stud and loop.

This class'of clasps differs from my clasp, as in this old class the stud was used with a non-elastic strap, while the loop was not sustained with the strap in an elastic manner, while in my invention both the stud and hook are each connected with an elastic branch of the main supporting-strap, so that the strain from the pull of the article supported will be borne equally by the stud and the hook in all cases.

This feature of elastic branch straps I believe has not been employed by others in clasps which employ a stud for projecting a portion of the fabric of the article past the general plane of its surface.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a supporter for hose or other articles of wear, the combination, with supportingstrap A, of the elastic branch straps a a, one of which is provided with stud B, and the other with a hook, which will engage with the fabric of the article to be supported, drawn over the head of the stud on the side of its neck from which the line of pull of the supported article is exerted, whereby both the stud and the hook will be made to equally resist the pull of the article supported, all substantially as set forth.

2. In a supporter for hose or other articles of wear, the combination, with elastic branch strap a, secured to the stud B, provided with a rivet end, I), by means of base-plate 0, provided with slot 0, bar 0, and perforation c", and washer D, as above described, of elastic branch strap a, provided with hook E, all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

ANDREW WINTERBURN. \Vitnesses:

ALEX. SELKIRK, J r., CHARLES SELKIRK. 

